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After telling you about Best Buy’s new trade-in program this morning, Target dropped us a line to let us know that their new electronics trade-in program will handle game trade-ins as well. Is anyone not offering game trade-ins?
Electronics retailer Best Buy has rolled out its new video game trade-in program nationwide, offering a $US20 gift card with select titles to help offset the fact that GameStop gives more credit on average.
THQ’s Cory Ledesma has delivered a blunt message to consumers buying used copies of his company’s games: they’re cheating the publisher out of money.
It sounds like a U.N. relief program for starving gamers, but it’s not. The U.K. supermarket chain Tesco has expanded a pilot used-games trade-in to 60 stores. Store credit can be used for anything, food included.
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This morning on Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Wocalax ponders which is worse: Stealing video games or buying them secondhand.